1Radiology, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 2Psychiatry,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

We
showed the evidence of MRI-guided focused ultrasound can suppress the ictal
actvity induced by the chemical kindling of rat brain via kainic acid. This
evidence demonstrate that non-invasive suppression of epilepsy may be
feasible using pulsed, low-energy focused ultrasound.